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By Steven SolnickNext year's tuition will be on

the agenda as the Executive Conim-mrnittee of the Corporation meetstoday, and President Paul Grayhas said the increase in tuition"will make you blink."

Vice-President Constantine-·:·:;:·:·'d~ _·~. 9 ;Simonides confirmed that the

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recommend to the Committee,but-stressed that it was "only arecommendation." He said theExecutive Committee would dis-cuss the matter and may or maynot agree on the 1981-'82 tuitionrate.

Simonides said that an increaseof 15 percent over this year's-tui-tion "looked less realistic" andthat the hike "was going higher."

Last year's increase of 17 per-cent to $6200 had been an MITrecord.

Gray referred to the increase as': , another whopper" and said thata major driving force behind thisyear's increase was the need toraise faculty salaries to makethem competitive with other com-An April appearance by Harry Chapin has been cancelled by the SCC. them competitive with other com-parable schools. According to

Chapin concert cancelled

Gray, entry-level academicsalaries had not been raisedsignificantly in recent years. Hesaid that M IT ws having difficultyattracting younger scientists andengineers away from industry.

Simonides cited a number ofreasons why the final tuition deci-sion might be delayed. He saidthat some financial data had notyet been thoroughly compiled,such as the effect of oil deregula-tion on MIT finances.

"National trends are in flux,"Simonides noted, and the actionsof the new administration inWashington on aid to highereducation were still unclear. TheReagan administration hasproposed drastic cuts in grant andloan availability, and these would

tend to drive the tuition ratehigher. "The outlook is more andmore pessimistic," he said.

Simonides added, "With everyday that goes by we seem to dis-cover more and more expenses forthe Institute."

Simonides also said there hadbeen discussion of setting the tui-tion, room and board, and finan-cial aid equity level simultaneous-ly. In previous years, they hadbeen announced a number ofweeks after the tuition decision.

Dean for Student AffairsShirley McBay said she thoughtthat announcing the entire budgetat one time would be "much bet-ter in terms of the ability of stu-dents and parents to plan for theupcoming year."

By Stephanie PollackA Harry Chapin concert plan-

ned for Kresge Auditorium forApril 24 is now effectivelycanceled, according to formerStudent Center Committee (SCC)Chairman Chris Wheeler '81.

Wheeler commented thatalthough there was a slight pos-sibility that Chapin's schedulecould change, "we're not sittingaround with baited breath andfingers crossed."

The primary reason for theconcert's cancellation was the"capriciousness of the Chapinpeople," explained Wheeler.SCC was told last November thatChapin was available on April 24.A few weeks later, Near As-sociates, Chapin's New Englandbooking agent, called back andsaid Chapin would be taping acable televion program that night.

The situation was further com-

plicated in January when SCC at-tempted to move the concert toThursday, April 23. The MITSymphony Orchestra had Kresgebooked from 7:30 to 10pm, andguest director Neil Stulbergrefused to move the scheduledrehearsal. Wheeler was told that itwas too close to the orchestra'sperformance date, and that theyhad already agreed to moveseveral other planned rehearsals.

The "official SCC position" onthe Kresge scheduling incident isthat there is "no animosity"toward the Orchestra. Wheelerwas quick to point out that SCChad "come up with the idea verylate." Several SCC members haveindividually complained aboutthe Orchestra's actions, however.

Under its by-laws, SCC isrestricted to holding events in theStudent Center. They weresuspended early in the planning

for the Chapin concert in order tohave access to Kresge's largerseating capacity.

Chapin's concert fee is $7500,and even with a $5 ticket priceand Kresge's 1200-seat capacity,SCC had expected to lose two orthree thousand dollars.

begin immediately the next day.The new proposal would

change Registration Day fromSeptember 14 to Wednesday,September 9. Residence/Orienta-tion (R/O) week would begin onAugust 28 rather than September4: the traditionally 10 day R/Oweek would be extended twodays. The change calls for all clas-ses to end on Monday, December14. Finals would be held fromTuesday to Friday, December 15-18.

The proposal was madebecause of faculty and CEP con-cern that the original schedule of

By Selina LinThe Committee on Educational

Policy (CEP) unanimously ap-proved a proposal to moveregistration day from Monday toWednesday, Sheila Widnall, CEPchariman, reported to the facultylast term. Widnell is alsochariman of the faculty.

The proposal will be presentedat the February 18 facultymeeting for a vote. Originally,registration day was to be Mon-day, September 14, a week afterLabor Day. Classes with finalswould end on Wednesday,December 16; and finals would

finals immediately after the lastday o' classes would put toomuch pressure on students. Thechange gives students a 3-dayreading period before exams.

Dave Linglebach '83,Chairman of the Student Com-mittee of Educational Policy(SCEP) supports the proposal.However, he added that he wouldlike to see a longer readingperiod. "I would like to see thereading period extended to aweek. There is still too much pres-sure on students. Other univer-sities have a week," he pointedoul.

Proposition 22taking effect now

By Kenneth Snow begins for cities and towns, onProposition 21/2, the bill to limit July 1, 1981.

property taxes in Massachusetts, The rent deduction took effectis now law. The effects of this law, beginning January 1, 1981, so thathowever, are not living up to the all rent paid during 1981 will beexpectations of many of its sup- eligible as a deduction. The firstporters. oppoutunity to take advantage of

The law affects tax-payers in the rent deduction is on tax formsthree major areas. The first-of filed in early 1982. Complicatingthese is property taxes, which are this matter even further; this partnow limited to 212% of their fair of the law is now being disputedmarket value. This means a before the state courts.tremendous loss of revenue for The excise tax rate also took ef-many cities ,and towns in the fect on January 1, 1981. The ef-Commonwealth. fects of this part of the law are

The law also brought about a already being felt. Many civil ser-reduction in automobile excise vants are being fired because oftax from $66 per thousand to $25 the loss of excise tax revenues.per thousand. Finally, the new One such example is the release oflaw will provide a deduction of 7 firefighters in Belmont.50%C on all rent paid. Citizens for Limited Taxation

Officially,Question 2 on the (CLT), the organization that leadballot, Proposition 21/2 became the fight in favor of question 2,law 30 days after the Nov. 4 elec- "deplores" the tactics being usedtion. Property taxes will not be af- to implement the law. Thefected until the next fiscal year (pease turn to page 6)

Fumiko (played by Larissa Kraft) if filled with angst as her father confronts an American soldier in BehindEnemy Lines, a new play opening at The People's Theatre February 12th. Also appearing in the play is BobbyKim, an MIT junior. (Photo by Kevin Osborn)

Increase"another whopper"

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Space Shuttle launching delayed until April - The National Aeronautics and Space Administrationannounced a rescheduling of the test flight for the space shuttle Coluninbia from March 17 to no earlier thanApril 5 because of, "an accumulation of minore problems.'

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Brockton Community School'sAnnual juried photography showwill take place on March 18-21,1981, at Westgate Mall and Plaza,Route 24 in Brockton from 10amto 10pm. This show is open tophotographers throughout Mas-sachusetts and Rhode Island andI

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The Boston DSOC EducationProgram will be offering twocourses this spring. "The Left andthe Law," taught by HarvardLaw Professor Gary Bellow willbegin Thurs. Feb. 26 at 7:30pm atthe Jamaica Plain Legal ServicesOffice, 3529 Washington St.,Jamaica Plain, and will meet thefour following Thursdays."Religion and Socialism," taughtby the editor of ReligiousSocialisms, John Cort, will beginon Mon. Feb. 23 at 8pmn at theRed Pipe Room of the WestonSchool of Theology, 3 Phillips PI.,Camb., and will meet the five fol-lowinig Mondays. Fee for eachcourse is $20. For more informa-tion, call the Democratic SocialistOrganizing Committee at 426-9026 or write 120 Tremont St.,Rm. 305, Boston MA 02108.

By Rose Marie DamianoWilliam Doyle '84, a 1980

International Science andEngineering Award recipient,returned from a US Army-sponsored week in Tokyo andKyoto, Japan during IAP,observing "Japan is moretechnologically oriented ...Japanese technology is betterthan here in the US, especially inautomotive technology."

The 1980 annual InternationalScience and Engineering Awardsfor high school students were heldlast May in St. Paul, Minnesota.The title of Doyle's project was''Quantitative Analysis ofPhotographic Characteristics Us-ing Video Techniques." In addi-tion to a scholarship award tostudy at the Weitzmann Institutein Israel, 'Doyle was one of twostudents to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Japan for a week.Doyle's trip was sponsored by theUS Army Material Developmentand Readiness Command, whichsponsors a panel of judges at theInternational Science andEngi neering Fair to select stu-dents to attend the Japan StudentScience Award Ceremony inTokyo, known as Operation

Cherry Blossom."Japan is a mixture of the

ultra-modern and the ancient,"according to Doyle. "We stayedin a conventional old-styleJapanese inn in Kyoto. There wasno heat except for small heaters.We slept on tatarni mats made ofstraw and there were rice paperwalls like in Kung-fu scenes."Housing is "far inferior -primitive by American stan-dards,'' noted Doyle.

The highlight of his visit wasthe Japan Student ScienceAwards Ceremony, sponsored bythe Yomliuri Shititban, theJapanese National newspaper. "Itis a national honor to win thisaward in Japan," Doyle said,"since technology in Japan is so

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Doyle's attitude towards theJapanese has changed after hisvisit. He previously thought the.Japanese were strictly com-petitors with the US, especiallywhere automobiles were con-cerned. Now he finds this is nottrue. "I'm rnore sympatheticnow,'' he says.

"The Reagan Years: The Chal-lenge - Our Response", first of a"dialogue" series, will besponsered by the AmericanFriends' Service Committee,Tuesday, February 10 at 8 pm,First Parish Church, HarvardSquare.

The Undergraduate Associa-tion will be holding elections forClasm of 1984 officers, includingPresident, Vice-President,Secretary, Treasurer, and 2 Ex-ecutive Board members. Petitionsare now available in the UA officeand are due by noon, Friday,February 20th.

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Dr. Philip Stubblefield will dis-cuss abortion and birth control atthe Cambridge Forum onWednesday evening, February 18,8:00pm, 3 Church Street, HarvardSquare, Cambridge.

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There were very few students at la st Sunday's activities Midway, so Ifound myself with a fair amount of free time. As I ambled down therows of booths, I looked ait the representatives of the other activities.Some faces brightened as I walked by, -then dropped as I kept on walk-'i ng. Others didn't even bother; no doubt convinced of the futility of try-;in, to recruit any of the 40 (roughly) who showed up.

I started thinking about the involvement of non-students in the ac-tivities at the Institute. I kept an inventory of sorts as I walked downthe aisles. An excerpt follows:

*Tecthniquve whose president is a part-time commuting graduate stu-dent.e WM BR, whose $10,000-plus funding from MIT is in jeopardybecause of insufficient student participation.* M usical Theatre Guild, ,whose board approves a student-non-studellt "quota"' for every show it produces.@ LSC, which has been run for so long by "old-tim-ers" that you prac-ticallly halve to have been to a tive-year alumni reunion before anyonew ill listen to you. That LSC members have traditionally ''run" the As-socialtion of' Student Activities only adds to the irony.* SI PB, who provides an alternate homnes conlplete with loft bed, forthose colnputer hackers not ready to leave the nest and fully face thereal world.0 The Student Art Association, who has more space in the StudentCenter than any other activity, and who would be hard-pressed to meetthe ASA requirement of five students if its menlbership list werecarefully looked at.

aThell there is Thpe Techt, hobbled by its dependence on graduates tomaintain equipment that waIs obsolete before they finished installing it,find whose financial operations are so obscure that at times, they wereonly fully understood by someone who was a freshman in 1967. Therewas also a time when the choice for Managing Editor was between oneperson who withdrew from the Institute and another who had beenwithdrawn for about cl year, who even now still insists he'll be brick inschool soon.

I'm sure that The Tech is not the worst "offender'' in this regard, butIj'ust know the most about its history.

There are a number of reasons why a graduate or other type of non-student would want to stay around. First, working on the activities isvery rewarding. You can make a great deal of mioney doing productionwork for organizations like LSC and The Tech. Second, a- lot of thework is challlenging, and therefore rewarding in its own right. It's atreat ego-boost to be able to do professional quality work while onlybeing an "amnateur.''-

It often takes a1 great deal of expertise and experience to fully operateni uch of the equipment owned by some of the activities around here. Inthe professional field, years of learning are necessary before sonleonerealches the "Master Electrician'' or "Full Engineer'" or the equivalent- levels often needed around here. The longer someone stulys around,the mnore proficient they becomes and hence, the nlore valuable to theorgalnizattion.

The clange in this is when these people beconle too valuable and theorganizaItion starts to depend on theni too mluch in order to best

'rvde its service. Here the line between a1 "student activity" and a-'service-providing organizaltion"' becomes blurred. "We had to bringbelck the old lfolks." one alctivity member explained. "Without thenl. wecouldn't do our job the wayf people expected us to.'' Does the StudentbodN, wa~nt LSC- to show movies well, or teach students how to showI henl''

. further problem isthat this tends to beconle one giant vicious cir-cel. Nlew, students are discouraged by the dearth of fellow students andhy! the attitude ,given olf by the "old-timers."' Twice I have heard, ''Iheld to leave. the old Ia~rts wouldn't let nile do what I wanted- they,zlkvavIs knexv the better wily.'' Bereft of under~grads, the organizationbedcon~iets niore find more dependent on the "old-timers'' to run thingssilloothly .

T-here brie times when I walk into The Tech's offices in the StudentCenter Buildings wishing I could get rid of the non-students. find thatmys lCllokv activity leaders would do the samne. I could accept the p~er-sonall problems this would cause, I think -these people are closefriends, but I nm not sure if 'prolessionallly'' we could afford to do so-palrticulalrly when I look ;lt Tile LinkA, an ;llternaltive newspaper-in nealr-criticall collditioll because not enough students who are sick or TheI((l,h calre enough to do anything, about it.

I enjoy what the student activities produce here, aind amn constantly~nialzed bry the collsistellt hi~gh quality of their efforts. My en joymnelt is

sadly reduced, howvever. bv the knowvled~ge that mys classnmltes halveoflten precious little to do with it.

1Wi bior' . sloe: Richa1rr(I Silz wsa~s e~>(lecedEi toio-inl-(V /I/ °tlivolin ofZ/z) The Tech. It' reve~slqedc earrlier tihis l(Sit eek 7X as hiill no(t he) a st-(t lt/1(, w rmtso l.)

Guest Column/J. Spencer Love

Cashing a chalkboard checkI

It all started one Friday inJanuary. We were sitting in theoffice after a staff meeting and theconversation turned to the subjectof checks.

''You can write a check onanything,'' I said. ''Just aminute,'' I continued, as I pickedup the eraser. A few momentslater, after putting -the finaltouches on a signature in five inchtall letters, I said, ":That is a validcheck. I made it out for only tendollars, because, after all, youmight cash it."

"iYou're putting me on,'' Johnsaid. ''They'd never cash ablackboard."'

"'If you can get the bank to cashit, you can keep the ten dollars'," Ioffered. I was sure he would neverdo it. If the check had been for ahundred dollars, maybe.

I underestimated John. Thenext Wednesday, he announcedhis intention to cash the check."iWill yo)u help me carry it to thebank'?"

I pointed out that, if I wasthere, there would be no need fora check written on a blackboard.Leslie Kurtz'berg had offered tohelp carry it to the bank when wetold her about it Friday night,Lind I supplied her phone numberin lieu of aid. Then I left for the

Brian J. Glass '82 -ChairmanJ ~~~~Richard E. Salz 82 -Editor-in-Chief

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decided to reconnoiter. DeanRoos, the Kendall Square branchmanager, is a friend of mine, andI expected he would be quiteamused. When I asked for him,however, they said he wasn't infor the day. Then I knew thatJohn aind Leslie were in for a hardtime.

Carrying the heavy (4' by 6')blackboard to the bank was a bittryi ng: it has sharp edges.H owever, the passersby on theway to the bank thought thecheck wars very funny, whichhelped. When they got the checkinto the bank, the receptionistburst out laughing. However,when they Slot to the front of theline, the teller svas not am used.She called the assistant manager.When he saw the check, he knewit was going to be one of thosedays.

The assistant manager tried tobluff his way out of the situation.This was a. mistake. You justdon't bluff my roommate. Afteran initial exchange of threats,John went off to a pay phone tocall the Better Busi ness Bureau.The assistant manager called hissuperiors at the main Coolidge of-fice in Watertown.

The Better Business Bureauvised John that he had a Vdraft atnd that he should stanchis rights. The Bank's vice pident told the assitstalt man,that he hald to cash the checi

About this timne, my phr a ng. I t was the assistmanager. He wanted to knowknew anything about a chwritten on at black board . Hevery polite.

''Sure,'' I replied. "As fallI'm concerned, it's aI perfevalid draft."

" WellI, wh ose blacck boardthis'? Yours or the Bank's'?-risked.

"'Actually, it's HIS blackbovWhat you do with it is betsvyou and John."

''You realize, of course, thalwlill have to impose a ser,charg~e of $7.50 (to your accotlo cover special handli ng,", heded.

"Sounds fair to me, " I scompletely unperturbed.

About this time, Dean Rshowed up. He wats interamused. He also noticedsteam coming from under thelair of the assistant manager,immediately offered to take the transaction . He haed J oh n

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(continued from page 4)Leslie hold the check up in frontof the closed circuit TV camera inorder to make a permanentrecord of the check.

John got the ten dollars. Hesays he is going to frame it. It onlytook an hour and a half.

Then my phone rang again. Itwas John. He wanted me to cometo the bank and sign a releaseform so the check could beremoved from the premises.Otherwise, they would keep thecheck until they could mail it tome with my monthly statement.Collect.

When I got to the bank, Deantold us of having cashed a checkwritten on a watermelon, andJointed out a minor error on the:heck. "You- should have given

the address of the bank, but it wasa reasonable assumption that thiswas the bank you meant since thebank name, account number andyour name all matched."

He-said the best one he knew ofwas the case of a man who wasbehind in payments on a truck.The man wrote a check on theside of the truck. In this mannerhe stopped up the legal machineryfor a month or two, since oncethey took payment they wouldhave to give the truck back,which sonmehow kept them frombeing able to repossess the truck.Then someone noticed that hehad insufficient funds to cover thedraft, so the truck bounced.

I signed the. release and weprepared to carry the cancelled

blackboard back to John's office."Don't worry about the servicecharge," Dean said. "It was pret-ty funny. But don't have all yourfriends come in here with weirdchecks. It can be done - theydon't have to prove it." fie hadone last thing to say: "We tullilledour legal obligations; I had yourfriend here sign the back of thecheck."

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Blood BeachA C Blood Beach. starring David HuJfinzan and

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'llianis and deranging. Perhaps my dislike for Robin,rt A ltinan; Williams and little grounding in' the car-yNilsvson; toon version of Popeye (parents went forParamnount educational television on a large scale) arek57. contributory, but Robert Altman (N~ashvil-

somehow le. Three Womeen) would seem to be thekind of director capable of doing

...- something interesting with anytwhing.Altman's film, however, even with the as-sistance of screenwriter and humorist Jules

.. :;: -Feiffer, leans more towards pathos than> :;#Bs - humor.

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",R..::utterly unreal. The ponderousness thatresults from Altnian's struggle to achieve

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film's chief flaw.~~~~Popts vs has an oppressively disorgan ized

1! ~~feel to it. Perhaps Altman waTs trying for: the "wacky world" of the comic strip, but

.. -.. *his methods are merely distracting. Altmlan;^-> has over-done the ramshackle architecture

of Sweethave (where the film takes place),the gratuitous violence, the peculiarities ofthe citizens. Shelly Duvall is marginally in-teresting as Olive Oyl, while Robin Wil-liams seems to have talked himself intobecoming a wholly twco-dimensionalPopeye.

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Lolita, the play that Edward Albee callshis valentine to Vladimir Nabokov, is play-ing at the Wilbur theater prior to itsBroadway debut. With an irony Nabakovmight have enjoyed, the show's manage-ment has decided to end Lolita's run onFebruary 14. With time so short, it may bedifficult to see the play, but well worth theeffort.

Lolita is about a middle aged man'sdesire for his nymphet step-daughter and,strangely, it is also about love. Albee hastaken Nabokov's novel and adapted it intoa comedy that has some bittersweet mo-ments. Much has, of need, been left behind.If you expect a faithful transcription ofNabakov's novel into play form, you arebound to be disappointed. Although Albeeoften quotes directly from the book, he setsa more slapstick tone. Taken on its ownterms though, Lolita is a delight.

Donald Sutherland is convincing asHumbert Humbert, the Europeangentleman turned American stepfather.With outward sophistication he kidnaps

Lolita, bringing her' from motel to motelonly to discover that she does not love him.Blanche Baker does a remarkable job atplaying twelve year old Lolita. She seemsto have stolen her movements and speechstraight from a junior high schoolplayground. Baker, who is twenty-fouryears old, is a former Wellesley studentwho once took classes at M IT and acted inthe Shakespeare Ensemble. She will bemaking her Broadway debut. [anRichardson, an English actor trained inShakespeare, is memorable as A CertainGentleman. This character purports to bethe only real person in the play, since he isthe playwright. He walks about the stagelike a magician, moving sets with a wave ofhis hand, turning the plot to his own uses,and calmly observing his characters' tor-tures. While conveying an atmosphere ofabsolute control, he is constantly com-plaining that his characters are getting outof hand.

Lolita has already been previewed byTime magazine and it's likely to be a playpeople will be talking about. So, if youhave yet to drag yourself away from LSCmovies to see a live stage play, this is theperfect opportunity.

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sent Anton Chekhov's Uncle! Vasnya from Feb. 5 to 7, and Feb.? 12 to 14, at 8pro in the Kresge Lit-tie Theatre. Tickets are $3.00(with MIT or student ID) andi tickets are available at the ticketbooth in Lobby 10.

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Revolutionary structural artistHeinz Isler's work (models andphotographs) will be on view atthe Margaret HutchinsonCompton Gallery, Room 10-150,MIT through Feb. 18. Isler isfamous for his innovative use ofthin shell concrete, and his ex-perimentation with ice forms.

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perform an all-Bach program inJordan Hall tonight at 8pni. Tobe included are the rarely per-formed Concerto in C for ThreeHarpsichorcds, the Wedding Can-afua B WV 20.2, and BrandenburgConcertos 5 and 6. MartinPearlman will direct the ensem-ble, and tickets are $4.00 for stu-dents and $8.00 for others.

The Longy School of Music, IFollen Street, Cambridae. willpresent a concert featuring theworks of Beethoven, Martinu,and Brahms as performed by theMarlboro concert players. Theconcert is tonight at 8pm, andtickets are $4.00 for students.

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Right now, we're looking for key people tofill positions at our ultra-sophisticated new $100million GE Microelectronics Center in ResearchTriangle Park, North Carolina, as well as at ourother established facilities.

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The young engineer who did just that is now working on more advancedproblems, with greater independence. From the beginning, however, the seniormembers of the team provided, not only theoretical support and practical hard-ware guidance, but also opportunities to create, invent, investigate, and developparts of this complex new instrument.

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evolutionatly plogl'ainl f'or the) companyl.TIhe sillngle-engt~inedl F'-.) ( .ws cixtonceiv edto meent \xorld def'enise lleetds todave a'ndt hrou orh t her I 990('.s, alla off el i; anl aif'f'ordable.SUI)IMOltCahlte defen'lsie isysteml thalt kteeps

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February 1981

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tyears. \N toi' p)i OIlt edl t he peop0l)e assXOCi-